476 5104 HALLOWEEN CLASSICS TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANDREW GREENE
Witches, vampires, ghosts, hellfire and damnation: the creatures of the night have always been a rich source of deliciously scary music! The devil may not have ALL the good tunes, but he has plenty of them, and the great composers, from Mozart and Chopin to Verdi and Tchaikovksy, know how to conjure up every detail of the sinister pleasures in these musical enchantments. These demonic delights summon from the depths of the orchestra a wild celebration of all things ghoulish perfect for a Halloween celebration, any time! 2 3
1 Werewolves: The nightmare begins 0 31 Halloween Night [2 53] 2 I. The Witches and the Pumpkins 0 51 3 II. The Goblins 0 29 4 III. The Ghosts 1 33 Music by Fabrizio Ferrari b.1971 orch. Andrew Greene. Jun Yi Ma violin 5 Troldtog (March of the Trolls) 3 16 From Lyric Suite Op. 54. Music by Edvard Grieg 1843-1907. 6 The Witch s Cave 0 39 7 La Tregenda (The Witches Sabbath) 4 07 From Le Villi (The Fairies). Music by Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924. 8 Witch s Aria 1 37 From Hansel and Gretel. Music by Engelbert Humperdinck 1854-1921. 9 The Fires of Hell 0 28 0 The Statue Drags the Libertine to Hell 3 08 From Don Giovanni. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791.! La casa del Diavolo (The House of the Devil): Third movement (Allegro con moto) 4 48 Symphony No. 6 in D minor, G506, Op. 12 No. 4. Music by Luigi Boccherini 1743-1805. @ The Vampire Returns to Life 2 22 From Der Vampyr (The Vampire). Music by Heinrich Marschner 1795-1861. March to the Guillotine 0 39 $ Funeral March (excerpt) From Piano Sonata No. 2. Music by Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849 orch. Gustav Schmidt. 2 24 % Funeral March of a Marionette 4 24 Music by Charles Gounod 1818-1893. ^ The Evil Laboratory 0 29 & The Casting of the Magic Bullets 3 53 From Der Freischütz. Music by Carl Maria von Weber 1786-1826. * The Murder 0 59 From Psycho. Music by Bernard Herrmann 1911-1975. ( The Ghosts High Noon 2 03 From Ruddigore. Music by Arthur Sullivan 1842-1900. 4 5
) The Haunted Forest 0 37 Baba Yaga (The Witch) 1 40 From Album for the Young. Music by Pyotr Il yich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893 arr. Dan Walker. Walpurgis Night Ballet: Danse de Phryné (Phryne s Dance) 2 55 From Faust. Music by Charles Gounod. # King of the Abyss (Ulrica s Invocation) 3 47 From A Masked Ball. Music by Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901. Sunrise: Was it all a dream? 0 27 Ave Maria 3 01 Music by Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 / Charles Gounod. Jun Yi Ma violin Total Playing Time 51 13 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra For more than six decades the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has been at the forefront of concert life in Tasmania. Established in 1948 and declared a Tasmanian Icon in 1998, the TSO gives more than 40 concerts annually including seasons in Hobart and Launceston, and appearances in Tasmanian regional centres. In recent years the TSO has performed at City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney and at the Adelaide Festival, and made its debut at Melbourne Recital Centre in September 2011. International touring has taken the orchestra to North and South America, Greece, Israel, South Korea, China, Indonesia and Japan. Resident in Hobart s purpose-built Federation Concert Hall, the TSO has a full complement of 47 musicians. Marko Letonja is the orchestra s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. Australian music is one of the TSO s focal points. Its Australian Music Program, which was founded in 2003, champions music by Australian composers through recordings, performances and commissions, and nurtures promising careers through the annual Australian Composers School. Mindful of its mission to be a source of pride for all Tasmanians, the TSO performs a wide variety of music. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, Lisa Gasteen, Nigel Kennedy, Sara Macliver, Howard Shelley, Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Richard Tognetti are among the soloists who have appeared with the orchestra. Popular and jazz artists who have performed with the orchestra include Rhonda Burchmore, Kate Ceberano, Roberta Flack, James Morrison, Anthony Warlow, Human Nature and The Whitlams. 6 7
Andrew Greene Andrew Greene studied piano, harpsichord, cello and conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, while working as a member of the music staff of the Opera School. After further studies in Europe he took up his first full time position on the music staff of the Victoria State Opera, where he conducted a broad range of repertoire from grand opera (Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, The Barber of Seville, Faust, The Pearl Fishers) to operettas and musicals (Die Fledermaus, Iolanthe, Annie Get Your Gun and the Broadway version of The Pirates of Penzance). In 1986 he was appointed Music Director of the State Opera of South Australia, where his repertoire included The Marriage of Figaro, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Mozart s La finta giardiniera with a translation of his own making, and the Australian professional premiere of Sondheim s Sweeney Todd. Returning in 1988 to working as a freelance conductor around Australia, New Zealand and into Asia, he conducted extensive seasons of such works as Crazy for You (Gordon Frost Organisation), The Phantom of the Opera (Really Useful Company), Mame (the Production Company), Trial by Jury (Covent Garden Festival, London), Offenbach s Orpheus in the Underworld and Don Giovanni. As an accompanist, Andrew Greene has appeared in recital in every major concert venue throughout Australia, and may be heard on the albums Songs of Wagner and Korngold (Move Records), Old American Songs and Danny Boy (ABC Classics). He has also contributed much to the performing skills of young classical singers and has been instrumental in the formation of performing companies for their development of their operatic abilities: Pacific Opera in Sydney and Stopera in Canberra. Currently he runs the Young Artist Program for Opera Australia. Now based permanently in Sydney, he conducts most of the lighter repertoire for Opera Australia. including My Fair Lady, A Little Night Music, Trial by Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, The Merry Widow and South Pacific, as well as Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute and La traviata. The Gilbert and Sullivan works have all been recorded on DVD by ABC Classics. Andrew Greene has appeared in concert with all of the Australian symphony orchestras, and regularly conducts the New Year s Eve Gala concerts in Sydney and Melbourne; a CD devoted to this repertoire was released with the soprano Ghillian Sullivan on Walsingham Classics. His recordings for ABC Classics include Operatunity Oz and As Night Falls with Sarah Calderwood. 8 Executive Producers Robert Patterson, Laura Bell Recording Producer Stephen Snelleman Recording Engineer Veronika Vincze Editing and Mastering Virginia Read Publications Editor Natalie Shea Booklet Design Imagecorp Pty Ltd Cover Photo bravo les filles / Flickr / Getty Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Marko Letonja Managing Director Nicholas Heyward Manager, Artistic Planning Simon Rogers Orchestra Manager Greg Low Orchestra Coordinator Jacqui Walkden Concertmaster Jun Yi Ma www.tso.com.au Recorded 2-5 April 2012 in the Federation Concert Hall, Hobart. Fabrizio Ferrari s Halloween Night is published by www.virtualsheetmusic.com Bernard Herrmann s Psycho: The Murder is published by Themes & Variations. ABC Classics thanks Andrew Greene, Vi King Lim (National Music Library, Symphony Services Australia), Peter Alexander (Opera Australia), John W. Waxman (Themes & Variations), Fabrizio Ferrari (www.musicianspage.com), Simon Rogers, Jacqui Walkden and Dee Boyd (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra), Lucas Burns (ABC Classic FM), Andrew Delaney, Dux Newton and Jonathan Villanueva (ABC Music) and John O Carroll. www.abcclassics.com 2012 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2012 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Universal Music Group, under exclusive licence. Made in Australia. All rights of the owner of copyright reserved. Any copying, renting, lending, diffusion, public performance or broadcast of this record without the authority of the copyright owner is prohibited. 9
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